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Publication details [#11084]

McMorrow, Leon. 1998. Breaking the Greco-Roman mold in medical writing: the many languages of 20th century medicine. In Fischbach, Henry, ed. Translation and medicine (American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series 10). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 13–27.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

20th century | Classicism=Antiquity | historical approach=historiography=history | influence=impact=effect | medical discourse=medical sciences=medicine

Abstract

The present article gives an overview of the influence of Greek and Latin on medicine and discusses the changing picture of medical English from the 15th to the 20th century.

Source : P. Van Mulken